Lehigh Portland

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued three citations against Lehigh Portland Cement Co., alleging officials at the Carroll County plant were negligent in failing to prevent a fatal accident last month.Lehigh employee Ronald L. Stewart, 41, of Union Bridge was killed when a freight train backed into a street-sweeping machine he was operating inside a loading tunnel at the Union Bridge plant July 1, state police said. Stewart had worked at the plant for about seven years.

Take a walking or bicycling tour, visit a railroad museum or drop off old tires at Union Bridge's annual Fall Fest from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.The festival, a fund-raiser to help pay off the new town hall mortgage, will be held at Lehigh Park on the grounds of Lehigh Portland Cement Co., 117 S. Main St.The event begins with a breakfast from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post, 115 Penrose St. It will include crafts and flea market sales,...

Take a walking or bicycling tour, visit a railroad museum or drop off old tires at Union Bridge's annual Fall Fest from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow.The festival, a fund-raiser to help pay off the new town hall mortgage, will be held at Lehigh Park on the grounds of Lehigh Portland Cement Co., 117 S. Main St.The event begins with a breakfast from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post, 115 Penrose St. It will include crafts and flea market sales,...

O'Conor, Piper agent tops $1 million in a monthJane Brown, a sales associate with O'Conor, Piper & Flynn in Eldersburg, generated sales of more than $1 million in a one-month period.A 16-year veteran of the business, she is an associate broker specializing in the sale of new homes and land. She also is a cer- tified new home sales professional.Brown lives in Eldersburg.Weller now supervisor at Lehigh PortlandLehigh Portland Cement Co. has announced the promotion of Herb Weller to production supervisor at the Union Bridge plant.

Western Maryland College plans a spring groundbreaking for a science center -- the major construction project in its $40-million fund-raising drive.About half of the money has been raised for the $12 million center -- still unnamed -- to be located near the Baker Memorial Chapel and adjoining the Lewis Hall of Science.An April 18 ceremony is being planned to launch construction of the science-laboratory building, said Joyce E. Muller, a college spokeswoman.Last week, Lehigh Portland Cement Co. donated $25,000 toward faculty offices in the building, one of the largest gifts by a local company since the campaign began.

An award has been established to honor businesses with strong working partnerships with Carroll County public schools to support, promote and improve education.Nominations for the Carroll County Business Partnership Award of Excellence and Commitment are made by educators.A reception honoring the outstanding businesses will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Wilhelm Ltd. Caterers in Westminster. Tickets are $2 and are available at the Chamber office.The following businesses were nominated by educators:Nevin Haines, Modern Comfort Systems, Westminster; Roland Schaeffer, Black and Decker, Hampstead; Beverly Casey, Humane Society of Carroll County, Westminster; Cathi Zile, Subway Sandwiches, Hampstead; Lisa Smith, Westminster Trust, Westminster; Frank Kosmakos, Maria's Restaurant, Manchester; Mike Virts, Central Maryland Jousting Club, Knoxville.

The 150 hourly employees at Lehigh Portland Cement in Union Bridge have had an uneasy relationship with their employer.For nearly three years, the United Paperworkers International had been unsuccessfully negotiating a new contract with the company. In addition, fumes have overcome Lehigh workers in at least four incidents over the past 24 months, the most recent occurring two weeks ago.A tentative agreement recently reached between the paperworkers union and Lehigh Portland Cement may lessen some of the hostility at the largest employer in the Union Bridge area, but it may be a long time before the company convinces employees that working conditions at the Union Bridge plant are up to par.Citations from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration for the most recent incident on Sept.

Lehigh Portland Cement Co. has reached a tentative contract agreement with the union at its Union Bridge plant, officials confirmed.David Roush, manager of the Carroll County plant, would not release details about the agreement with the United Paperworkers International Union."

I'm not very old, but I know a lot.I'll use the color "red" to describe something hotand "small finger bracelets" when I'm thinking of rings.I can make words mean other things.What am I?Answer: A New Windsor Middle School student who has learned how to write poetic riddles.Grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and Lehigh Portland Cement Co. in Union Bridge have enabled sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students at the school to study a variety of poetry-writing techniques.Poet Colleen Hoffmeister has spent the past four school days teaching one class from each grade about using colors to describe emotions and situations, creating "clusters" of words to describe an object, and other ways to "play with words."

Lehigh Portland Cement Co. will not build an earthen berm designed to shield its planned mining operation from view of residents along Old New Windsor Road because of objections from some residents.Carroll's commissioners voted unanimously yesterday to approve the change.Several people who live along Old New Windsor Road south of Greenwood Church Road said they do not want a 1,000-foot-long, 6-foot-high berm blocking their view of the valley there, said David Duree and Linda Cunfer of the New Windsor Community Action Project.

Herbert Ray "Speedy" Kennedy, a retired Lehigh Portland Cement Co. electrician and an avid outdoorsman, died Monday of complications from colon surgery at Frederick Memorial Hospital. The Union Bridge resident was 81. Mr. Kennedy, the son of a Portland Cement Co. heavy equipment operator and a homemaker, was born and raised in Union Bridge. After graduating from Elmer A. Wolfe High School in 1945, he enlisted in the Navy and served in Cuba and Panama aboard the submarine tender USS Orion.

Richard P. Williams, a former sales engineer for Lehigh Portland Cement Co. and World War II veteran, died of Alzheimer's disease Sunday at Multi-Medical Center in Towson. He was 81. Mr. Williams was born and raised in Chicago Heights, Ill., and left the University of Illinois in 1942 when he enlisted in the Army Air Forces. A navigator, he was assigned to the 306th Bomb Group in England and flew many combat missions aboard B-17 bombers over Germany. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and attained the rank of captain.

A group of South Carroll residents is taking the county commissioners to court for buying farmland in Union Bridge for $850,000 - more than six times the property's appraised value - for construction of a road and railway spur. Eldersburg residents Pamela Seiter, Nimrod Davis and Angela Lee will ask Carroll County Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. today to rescind the sale and issue an injunction to prevent the commissioners from taking possession of the property. "I understand the road has to be in place to relieve congestion in Union Bridge, but I still don't understand why we as taxpayers had to pay so much for this property," said Seiter.

IF THE county relied on Commissioner Donald I. Dell to negotiate all of its land deals, the public treasury might soon be depleted. His personal negotiations, with the enthusiastic support of Commissioner Robin Bartlett Frazier, acquired a piece of a dairy farm near Union Bridge for more than six times its appraised value. He threw in a bunch of other financial sweeteners for the owners. That's $850,000 for land independently valued at maybe $130,000. Its remote location and lack of public water and sewer don't make it a prime site, even if the land is mostly zoned industrial.

Take a walking or bicycling tour, visit a railroad museum or drop off old tires at Union Bridge's annual Fall Fest from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.The festival, a fund-raiser to help pay off the new town hall mortgage, will be held at Lehigh Park on the grounds of Lehigh Portland Cement Co., 117 S. Main St.The event begins with a breakfast from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post, 115 Penrose St. It will include crafts and flea market sales,...

Take a walking or bicycling tour, visit a railroad museum or drop off old tires at Union Bridge's annual Fall Fest from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow.The festival, a fund-raiser to help pay off the new town hall mortgage, will be held at Lehigh Park on the grounds of Lehigh Portland Cement Co., 117 S. Main St.The event begins with a breakfast from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post, 115 Penrose St. It will include crafts and flea market sales,...

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued three citations against Lehigh Portland Cement Co., alleging officials at the Carroll County plant were negligent in failing to prevent a fatal accident last month.Lehigh employee Ronald L. Stewart, 41, of Union Bridge was killed when a freight train backed into a street-sweeping machine he was operating inside a loading tunnel at the Union Bridge plant July 1, state police said. Stewart had worked at the plant for about seven years.

Western Maryland College plans a spring groundbreaking for a science center -- the major construction project in its $40-million fund-raising drive.About half of the money has been raised for the $12 million center -- still unnamed -- to be located near the Baker Memorial Chapel and adjoining the Lewis Hall of Science.An April 18 ceremony is being planned to launch construction of the science-laboratory building, said Joyce E. Muller, a college spokeswoman.Last week, Lehigh Portland Cement Co. donated $25,000 toward faculty offices in the building, one of the largest gifts by a local company since the campaign began.

O'Conor, Piper agent tops $1 million in a monthJane Brown, a sales associate with O'Conor, Piper & Flynn in Eldersburg, generated sales of more than $1 million in a one-month period.A 16-year veteran of the business, she is an associate broker specializing in the sale of new homes and land. She also is a cer- tified new home sales professional.Brown lives in Eldersburg.Weller now supervisor at Lehigh PortlandLehigh Portland Cement Co. has announced the promotion of Herb Weller to production supervisor at the Union Bridge plant.

An award has been established to honor businesses with strong working partnerships with Carroll County public schools to support, promote and improve education.Nominations for the Carroll County Business Partnership Award of Excellence and Commitment are made by educators.A reception honoring the outstanding businesses will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Wilhelm Ltd. Caterers in Westminster. Tickets are $2 and are available at the Chamber office.The following businesses were nominated by educators:Nevin Haines, Modern Comfort Systems, Westminster; Roland Schaeffer, Black and Decker, Hampstead; Beverly Casey, Humane Society of Carroll County, Westminster; Cathi Zile, Subway Sandwiches, Hampstead; Lisa Smith, Westminster Trust, Westminster; Frank Kosmakos, Maria's Restaurant, Manchester; Mike Virts, Central Maryland Jousting Club, Knoxville.